I don’t wear varifocals but that does seem to be the problem. Thanks that would be great. We have managed to adapt the rest of his job but this one is problematic and he desperately doesn’t want to be redeployed.

Karen

As a wearer of varifocals I suspect that varifocals are problematic for these tasks due to the difficulty in locating the “sweet spot” of the lenses. I will forward your email to a friend of mine who  is a professor of optometry to see if he has any ideas. It is possible he is working overseas so he may not get the chance to respond. If he does I will circulate.

Anne

Anne Harriss
Course Director
LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY


On 18/10/2013 19:08, "Karen Coomer" <[log in to unmask]" target="_blank">[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi List
I saw a maintenance fitter today with arthritis in his neck. He manages well but there is a machine where he needs to look up in order to see the parts, there isn’t much headroom and he cannot extend his head backwards easily, he wears varifocals. The guard to the machine could be altered to create more headroom but as there are 5 such machines this would be very costly.
 
Has anyone experience of using those big snooker type specs in the workplace or indeed wearing them. I know it’s an unusual request but I am trying to think of every alternative before the more obvious expensive one.
 
Many thanks
Karen
 

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